Atenes, 1979.
Felicie d’Estienne d’Orves
Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves’ work combines light, sculpture and new technologies. Her research focuses on vision, its processes and conditioning. Her immersive installations use a phenomenological approach to reality, emphasizing the perception of time as a continuum. Since 2014, the artist’s research has focused on space in relation to astrophysics and on the study of natural light cycles.
Her work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, Nuit Blanche, Paris, New Art Space / Sonic Acts Amsterdam, Watermans Arts Centre London, Elektra Festival / BIAN Montreal, Maison des Arts of Créteil Créteil, Le Centquatre / Nemo International Biennial of Digital Arts Paris, OCAT Shanghai, ICAS Dresden, Aram Art Museum Goyang /KR and Ars Electronica, Linz.
Work in the collection: Eclipse II
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Eclipse II, 2012
“Eclipse II helps us to experience the inherent interplay between the relative position of the observer, a light source and an eclipsing disc. Through a projection onto a suspended circular screen, it aims to question the instinctive and mystical understanding induced by natural manifestations of light. This interaction and alignment of shadow and light evokes the limits of human perception and distant events that create links in the space-time continuum. Like other projections and constructions of radiant colours created by the artist, she seeks to explore the process behind vision and the forms that condition our gaze.” Jean-Louis Boissier